Golf cup



F. E. KIP

GOLF CUP Filed Nov. '7. 1929 INVENTOR m E BY l l ORNEYJ Patented Oct. 27, 1931 UNITED STATES FREDERIC E. KIP, or MoNroLArn, Nnw JERSEY GOLF our Application mea November 7, 192e. serial No. 405,401.

My invention relates to golf cups. So far as I am aware, golf cups as heretofore made, have had but a single point of support for the stad, the result being that the staff assumes an inclined position which is annoying to players and requires that the stad be moved toa vertical position before a putting shot is made.

One object of my invention is to provide a support for the staff having a plurality of points of support against vertical displace yment so that the staff will always be maintained in vertical position.

Also, so far as I know, the pan attached to the staff has had no means for retaining the balls when the staff is lifted ,from the cup, with the result that the balls roll from the panand are apt to fall back into the cup making it necessary to lift them out by hand. Another object of my invention is to provide a pan of such form that the balls will be retained thereon until after the staff has been lifted and moved away from the cup thereby avoiding the likelihood of the balls falling back into the cup.

These and other features of my invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a vertical section with the stafll and fia-g in elevation; Fig. 2 a top view of the centering sleeve upon which the pan is adapted to rest; and Figs. 3 and 4l are views of modifications which may be employed.

Referring'to Fig. 1 the numeral 1 designates a cup of standard depth and diameter adapted to be placed in an opening in the ground. Secured to the inner wall of the cup is a member 2 constituting a seat for the pan 3 secured to the staff 4. The member 2 has a depending cylindrical flange 5 which I term a centering sleeve. It extends to substantially the plane of the lower end of the cup. ,As shown in Fig. 2 this member is formed with a series of openings 2 to permit the escape therethrough ofwater.

Fitted within the sleeve 5 is a bushing 6 having a central bore, the upper end of which is frusto-conical to provide a seat for a coneshaped collar 7 secured to the staff immediately below the pan 3. The latter has an upwardly fand outwardly extending flange 3 by which the balls, one of which is indicated at 8, will'be retained when the staff is lifted from the cup. y y

Thebushing 6 may extend .below the cup, .55 as indicatedin the drawings. At least it should be of such length that a sufliciently stable support for the staff will be provided to maintain the stall' always in apvertical position. The staff carries the `usual flag 9. v

In Fig. :3 the collar 10 attached to the staff immediately below the pan isfmade-cylindricalfinstead of cone-shaped as in Fig. 1. The bushing 11 is also modified by `making the. upper part of its central bore 12 cylin- 65S drical, and of a diameter to receive thecollar 10. The bore of the lower part of the bushing isof such diameteras to receive the lower end of the staff without binding, as in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 illustratesianother modification in which the centering. sleeve 13 has a greater degree of inclination than in Figs. 1 and 3 and is formed with a dependent cylindrical flange 13 of such internal diameter as to receive the flange 14: of the pan 14 when the .u staff is placed within the cup.

Near the lower end of the cup is secured a second centering sleeve 15 having a cylindrical flange 15 through which the lower end of the staff is passed. ,im

It will thus be seen that in all of the forms described, the lower end of the staff will be held against lateral displacement so that the staff will always be maintained in a vertical position. g5

In Fig. 1 the section of the staff below the pan will be in contact with the walls of the bore of bushing 6` thus having a pluralityv of points of support.

In Fig. 3 one point of support is afforded .f90 by the seating of the cylindrical collar 10 in the enlarged portion 12 of the bore of bushing 11, while a second point is afforded by the lower end of the staff being in contact with the wall of the smaller bore. In Fig. 4 `Il! the flange 14 is seated within the cylindrical collar flange 13 of the centering sleeve 18, and the lower end of the staff within the iange 15 of sleeve 15.

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flange, the'balls Will be prevented from falling or rollinggo until after the staff has been lifted from the cup. The balls may then be thrown Volf Yon the green away from 5 any possibility of having vthem falling back into thecup.v i

Theseveral parts of "my yimproved cup are siinplefin constructionandeasily as- 7 I .sembled In actual use `it has beenaccepted l f w hy players las meetingmalongffelt VWanty as 1t3avoids` theneeessity of the player placingv and having the stall" heldin a vertical posi-y f tion while making a putting shot, and avoids I the annoyance of the golf` balls falling back again into the cup after they have been with# ydrawn therefrom by f the elevation of the staff; vand avoids'the player havingfto stoop down and pick the balls out by hand; s'

The cup being of small diameter itis often difficult and always"tiresome'tov seeure the yWhat I'felaimis: i f j l" In Combination, a putting-cup', a vmember secured to theinner Wall thereof, a stalf'and f a pan securedA thereto,l said member eonsti- 'tuting'aseat for said pan and having a de- 'pending cylindrical flange extending to sub- "stantiallyzthe planeu of the lower end of the Y 5', "eupg a Collar on said staff below the pan, and

abushingy Lwithin said (flange, `"said bushing l *having a seat to receive the stajcollar.

` l' Signed at VNew?York`city,^in the county of -New York and State 4of New York', thisr18th ,FREDERIC E.- KIP.

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